TVLine Items: Jeffrey Tambor Visits The Good Wife, James Franco Gets Roasted and More!
For George Bluth, there’s always money in the banana stand. For Jeffrey Tambor, there’s always a juicy new gig right around the corner — and his next role’s a Good one.
The Arrested Development fave has landed a guest spot in The Good Wife‘s Sept. 29 premiere (CBS, Sept. 29), HuffPost TV reports. He’ll play a judge ruling over a case involving the death penalty.
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Tambor joins a group of previously announced Season 5 players, including Ben Rappaport (Outsourced) and Melissa George (Alias).
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• And Comedy Central’s next roastee is… James Franco! The big-screen star (and sometime soap actor) will be the subject of much lovable ridicule during the cabler’s next Roast, which shoots in August and airs Labor Day weekend.
• Doctor Who vet/Torchwood star John Barrowman is offering up his take on who should next portray TV’s Time Lord. “The character of River Song was so popular in the last part of the series and it was such an impact, why shouldn’t we have a female doctor?” the actor opined to ITV’s Daybreak. “Give it a whirl, if it doesn’t work… she can always regenerate back to a man — I’ve been there; I’ve watched them do it.”
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• Rob Lowe will reprise his role as film star Eddie Nero in a Season 7 episode of Californication, which is slated to bow in 2014.
• Ready to meet The Newsroom‘s new additions? Press PLAY below for intros to Season 2′s (premiering July 14) fresh faces, including Marcia Gay Harden (Law & Order: SVU), Hamish Linklater (The Good Wife), Grace Gummer (Zero Hour) and Constance Zimmer (Entourage).
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